Saturday, 13 August 2011It makes no sense to use the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict as a mean of exerting pressure on Azerbaijan, deputy executive secretary of the ruling New Azerbaijan Party (NAP), MP Mubariz Gurbanli said in an interview with NAP official website.
"Azerbaijan had hard times, but right balanced policy, economic policy did not give way to pressures. Our country’s policy has been worked out profoundly and this is producing its results. Therefore, it is unimportant to use this conflict as means of pressure on Azerbaijan. It is impossible to use this conflict as means of pressure on Azerbaijan and make it deviate from the political course. Though 20 percent of our territories are under occupation, we did not change and give up our policy under the influence and pressure of this conflict, but continued it," Gurbanli said.
Gurbanli said Armenia's hard condition makes some forces accelerate resolution of Karabakh problem.
"The socio-economic situation in Armenia is pitiable. The state is concerned about the situation, has been tired of it. Therefore, solving the conflict, they want to bring Armenia to normal economic condition," he added."
Qualitative changes have happened in Russia’s foreign policy and Russia, building its relationships with closest neighbors within economic interests, prefers not to pressure on them, but to cooperate, he said.
"Undoubtedly, Russia and Azerbaijan are strategic partners, President Dmitry Medvedev has high-level relationship with the President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev. The public opinion of Russia also formed a positive opinion on the settlement of the conflict. All this gives grounds to achieve specific changes in the next stages of the negotiation process," he added.
The conflict between the two South Caucasus countries began in 1988 when Armenia made territorial claims against Azerbaijan. Armenian armed forces have occupied 20 percent of Azerbaijan since 1992, including the Nagorno-Karabakh region and seven surrounding districts.
Azerbaijan and Armenia signed a ceasefire agreement in 1994. The co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group - Russia, France, and the U.S. - are currently holding the peace negotiations.
Armenia has not yet implemented the U.N. Security Council's four resolutions on the liberation of the Nagorno-Karabakh and the surrounding regions.
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Saturday, 13 August 2011
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